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No. 854,262. PATENTED MAY 21, 1907.

J. M. YOUNG.

DEVICE TO OPEN DOORS. APPLICATION FILED snmv, 1906.

3 n wanton UNITED STATES JAMES PATENT OFFICE.

' TO W. YOUNG, OF SPRING CREEK, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE TO OPEN DOORS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1907.

Application filed September 7, 1906. Serial lilo-333,637.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spring Creek, in the county of Warren and means of the foot, thus avoiding the neces sity of the party entering or leaving and with both hands full having to' ut 'down the burden carried in order to un atch and open the doors. I

The invention consists also of the novel features of construction hereinafter set forth, pointed out inthe claims and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the inner side of a door provided with my apparatus. Fig. 2 is a like View of a part of the outer side of the door. of the locking means. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through a portion of the door showin the foot lever employed.

n these drawin A represents a side of a building and. A a door traveling upon a suitable track A Upon the door 1s pivoted a latch B, which is adapted to enga e a keeper B pivoted upon the inner side 0 the wall A andhaving a limited vertical movement, a spring B holding the'kee er normally in a horizontal position." T e latch B as shown in the drawings engages the under face'of the keeper.

door, and in suitable plates or washers E I and upon the outer end of the shaft is fixed a foot lever F and upon the inner end or tion of the shaft is fixed a foot lever F w nch is provided also with a depending portion F to which is pivotally connected a slightly curved socket piece G. A socket G is "also pivotally connected 'to the lower end of the arm 0 and a rod H either of wood or iron, as

Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation The latch B carries an arm O to the upper end of which is pivoted a lever O adapted to strike a suit-;

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spring fastened in the usual manner encircles the rod H andisada ted to draw the parts back to their norma position after one of .the foot levers has been depressed.

- Thepoperation of the device is as follows To open the door either from the outside or from the inside it is only necessary to depress by the foot one of the levers F or F as the case may be, and this will elevate the rod 11 and cause the latch B to swing downwardly outof engagement with the keeper B. This 1 same movement will swing the lever C upon its pivot point and cause .it to strike the block D, and the force of the blow will start the door and it will roll into open position.

It will be obvious that the door can be opened from either side by a pressureof the foot upon the proper lever.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by.

Letters Patent, is 1-.-

1. The combination with a door, of a keeper, a latch carried by the door adapted to engage the keeper a lever carried by the latch, afoot lever carried by the door, means connecting the foot lever and the latch and a fixed object arranged ad'acent the door in position to be struck by t e lever carried by the latch.

2. The combination with a door, ofa latch carried by the door, an arm carried by the latch,:a lever pivoted to said arm, a keeper adapted to. be engaged by the latch, a rod connected to said arm, and a foot lever pivotally connected to said rod, the first men tioned lever striking a fixed object adjacent the door when the foot lever is depressed and the latch disenga ed from the keeper.

'3. A device/0 the kind described comprising a shaft journaled in a door, foot evers arranged u on its ends of said shaft, a

- latch carried by t e' inner face of the door, a

keeper adapted to be en aged by the latch, an arm carried by the late a leverpivoted to the upper end of said arm, a block secured adjacent the keeper adapted to be struck by said lever, and a rod pivotally connected at its upper end to the lower end of said arm and at its lower end to the inner foot lever.

JAMES M. YOUNG. Witnesses: O. H. Ammnws, D. A. Dnrnw. 

